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On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:45:49 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> I'm going to take your word and try ifplug, however, I installed it and |
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> it doesn't work. Still pings up /dev/null for all it's doing. I even |
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> went to rc-update and had it start at boot, though that didn't work. |
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You don't start it at all, let the network scripts deal with it. |
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> My guess is that it's trying to use net.lo (the loopback device) and |
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> thinks that that's plugged in therefore it tries to ping on everything |
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> else. |
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Nope, it defaults to eth0, but the network scripts use it on whichever |
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interface they are trying to control (but not lo because there is no |
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concept of a network cable or link beat for lo). You really should read |
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net.example. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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